Descrittione dell'Isola di San Lorenzo (Madagascar- African Island) Issued 1620, Venice by Porcacchi, Tommaso likely engraved by G. Porro Lovely and inherently uncommon 400 year old engraved map. There are several variant issues of this map, each dateable by the wood engraved vignette running across the top of the leaf. the cartography depicted represents 1570's. Delightful "miniature" map, with 2 large and dramatic looking sea monsters around the island, a handful of villages shown, compass rose above one monster, large ornate title cartouche top right. Text below the map and on verso, as always for Porcacchi maps. Map remains well preserved. Some light age wear or surface spotting/ soiling which is visible within the scan. Delightful antique map entirely worthy of hanging for display. A cartographic depiction captured in a manner entirely unique to this era. Sheet measures c. 11 1/2" H x 7 3/4" W. Printed area measures c. 4" H x 5 5/8" W Tooleys Dictionary of Mapmakers, v. 3, Gravier, La Cartographie de Madagascar, Rouen & Paris, 1896., 464-5, XXIII-VII, Ortelius, 92- Hondius, pp.97[R9307]Paper and image remains overall clean & sound. Old maps & prints often display small minor repairs on the back, could have uneven blank margins, might have extraneous fold-lines or other small minor age flaws which do not detract from the visual appeal or value. Condition is carefully considered in arriving at our price. A picture is worth a thousand words. The images are a major part of the item description. Please examine closely, what you see is what we will send you. [note: we grade
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Charming working sketchbook by Albert Flamen (Bruges, c. 1620 ? Paris, after 1691). Album containing 22 leaves with the majority of the drawings in brown ink, some with grey and brown wash. The leaves bound into what appears to be the original card cover, with later printed paper stuck to the outside. Dated in brown inside the back cover Le premier septembre ao 1679. Size: 16 x 23 cm. With watermark resembling Churchill 305.Contents: 9 leaves with numerous studies of fencing/ walking/ seated/ riding/ shooting figures; 1 leave with drawings of faces; 1 leave with drawing of a house with numerous animals; 1 leave with drawing of seven men on horseback in a landscape; 1 leave with drawing of several houses with a man on horseback in foreground; 1 drawing of two windmills with two draughtsmen in the foreground, titled: Veu? des moulins sur le chemin de Vaugirard du Cost? du faubourg St. Germain; 1 leave with five (shooting) men on horseback in front of a city gate; 3 leaves with perspective studies. Six leaves are by a different hand (a pupil?), some other leaves have additions by yet an other hand.The studies of figues or riders are of a type that we see everywhere in the prints of Flamen and his guiding light Jacques Callot, whose work he must have known intimately. He is best known for his prints and drawings of animals, but did also works in other genres. Several albums of his drawings on a single theme are known and at least three other diverse sketchbooks such as this have also survived (amongst which a sketchbook in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett ).Price: ?13.500,-.

Charming working sketchbook by Albert Flamen (Bruges, c. 1620 ? Paris, after 1691). Album containing 22 leaves with the majority of the drawings in brown ink, some with grey and brown wash. The leaves bound into what appears to be the original card cover, with later printed paper stuck to the outside. Dated in brown inside the back cover Le premier septembre ao 1679. Size: 16 x 23 cm. With watermark resembling Churchill 305.Contents: 9 leaves with numerous studies of fencing/ walking/ seated/ riding/ shooting figures; 1 leave with drawings of faces; 1 leave with drawing of a house with numerous animals; 1 leave with drawing of seven men on horseback in a landscape; 1 leave with drawing of several houses with a man on horseback in foreground; 1 drawing of two windmills with two draughtsmen in the foreground, titled: Veu? des moulins sur le chemin de Vaugirard du Cost? du faubourg St. Germain; 1 leave with five (shooting) men on horseback in front of a city gate; 3 leaves with perspective studies. Six leaves are by a different hand (a pupil?), some other leaves have additions by yet an other hand.The studies of figues or riders are of a type that we see everywhere in the prints of Flamen and his guiding light Jacques Callot, whose work he must have known intimately. He is best known for his prints and drawings of animals, but did also works in other genres. Several albums of his drawings on a single theme are known and at least three other diverse sketchbooks such as this have also survived (amongst which a sketchbook in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett ).Price: ?13.500,-.

Charming working sketchbook by Albert Flamen (Bruges, c. 1620 ? Paris, after 1691). Album containing 22 leaves with the majority of the drawings in brown ink, some with grey and brown wash. The leaves bound into what appears to be the original card cover, with later printed paper stuck to the outside. Dated in brown inside the back cover Le premier septembre ao 1679. Size: 16 x 23 cm. With watermark resembling Churchill 305.Contents: 9 leaves with numerous studies of fencing/ walking/ seated/ riding/ shooting figures; 1 leave with drawings of faces; 1 leave with drawing of a house with numerous animals; 1 leave with drawing of seven men on horseback in a landscape; 1 leave with drawing of several houses with a man on horseback in foreground; 1 drawing of two windmills with two draughtsmen in the foreground, titled: Veuë des moulins sur le chemin de Vaugirard du Costé du faubourg St. Germain; 1 leave with five (shooting) men on horseback in front of a city gate; 3 leaves with perspective studies. Six leaves are by a different hand (a pupil?), some other leaves have additions by yet an other hand.The studies of figues or riders are of a type that we see everywhere in the prints of Flamen and his guiding light Jacques Callot, whose work he must have known intimately. He is best known for his prints and drawings of animals, but did also works in other genres. Several albums of his drawings on a single theme are known and at least three other diverse sketchbooks such as this have also survived (amongst which a sketchbook in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett ).Price: ?13.500,-.

Venice: Giacomo Sarzina, 1620. 12mo (134 x 75 mm). [12] ff., 195, [1] pp. Title within engraved border incorporating the double-headed eagle crest of the Calergi, oval engraved portrait of the author aged 18 above a phoenix (symbol of the resurrection of Greece), six full-page engravings showing scenes from the play, the characters identified with engraved captions in the plates, by and after Francesco Valesio (title signed Franc. Valesio). Italic type, woodcut initial & tailpieces, typographic head-piece ornaments. Errata list on last page. A well-read copy with some wear & soiling, fraying and a small repair to title, first engraving with small tear just entering image, D4 with 2 closed tears due to paper flaw. Later parchment (amateurishly restored). Provenance: early ownership inscriptions of: Stephano Merelli, dated Rome, 11 December 1621 (ex codicibus Stephani Merelli...); Nicolo Bardi of Rapallo (on front flyleaf: [Greek cross] di Nicolo Bardi S. Luiggi in Genova, title: Nicolo Bardis and below the aforementioned inscription on lower flyleaf: ex codicibus Nicolae Bardi Rapallensis), and Francesco Maria Besaccio; early pen trials on pastedowns.***First Edition, rare, of a pastoral play by a teenage Cretan playwright who imitated the form and plot of Guarini's Pastor Fide to promote his own anti-Venetian and pro-Greek political views. The play is of interest for its illustrations by the Venetian engraver Francesco Valesio, and as an example of Cretan literature written for the Italian public. Written in 1619 for the marriage of Calerga, daughter of Giovanni Caler
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1620. Ad 1: Alden & Landis 674/159; Sabin 36944; Streit 648; ad 2: Weber II, 369; cf. Atabey 527 ; Blackmer 750. Ad 1: First edition (first issue) of a very interesting collection of voyages made to Africa and America, translated from the French, Latin and Portuguese originals and edited by Henri Justel (1620-1693). The work is richly illustrated with engravings, some showing Caribbean pottery, and engraved maps of New England, Jamaica , Barbados and Abyssinia. Ad 2: First edition (second issue) of an important work on Constantinople. In 1680 Guillaume-Joseph Grelot, an artist-traveller, having spent some time in Constantinople, first published a book of engravings after his drawings, along with extensive commentary and accounts of his adventures. His book immediately went through several editions. Even his English publisher bragged of Grelot's success with Louis: "The King of France was so pleased with these draughts, that he commanded the author to make them publick, and gave him his letters patents, strictly forbidding any to invade his propriety, by copying them after him". With some small tears in a few plates, but otherwise in good condition, with occasional minor browning along the folds of some plates; 1 view in ad 2 backed with blank paper. Well illustrated accounts of Africa, America and Constantinople. [Attributes: First Edition]

New edition, after the first published in 1619. Rare. Full brown speckled calf contemporary. Back tooled raised. Lack in head cover. A pale yellow wetness footer on the entire volume. 3 wormholes tail. Copy to the pleasing appearance. The Jesuit Pierre Garasse (1585-1630) is well known for his eccentricities and his diatribes of great violence, up to rudeness and obscenity; it takes in this book his Protestant counterpart (also well known for the same qualities) and his works, notably on the vocation of pastors. Accusing him of being fed Rabelais, Garasse takes in this book look like a Protestant denouncing the misdeeds of a brother. The style is very happy satirical, allegorical poems combining burlesque and the more direct attacks. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information! Par Christophle Girard A Bruselle 1620 Pet. in-8 (10,5x17,5cm) 240pp. relié

Par Christophle Girard. New edition, after the first published in 1619. Rare. Full brown speckled calf contemporary. Back tooled raised. Lack in head cover. A pale yellow wetness footer on the entire volume. 3 wormholes tail. Copy to the pleasing appearance. The Jesuit Pierre Garasse (1585-1630) is well known for his eccentricities and his diatribes of great violence, up to rudeness and obscenity; it takes in this book his Protestant counterpart (also well known for the same qualities) and his works, notably on the vocation of pastors. Accusing him of being fed Rabelais, Garasse takes in this book look like a Protestant denouncing the misdeeds of a brother. The style is very happy satirical, allegorical poems combining burlesque and the more direct attacks. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information! Par Christophle Girard A Bruselle 1620 Pet. in-8 (10,5x17,5cm) 240pp. relié

Florence: Zanobi Pignoni, 1620. First edition, extremely rare, of this letter by Galileo's disciple Guiducci to his former professor of rhetoric at the Collegio Romano, Tarquinio Galluzzi, defending Galileo against Orazio Grassi's attacks in his Libra astronomica (1619). This is the rarest of the series of polemical publications which documented the "controversy of the comets," one of the most infamous polemics in the history of science. "The dispute over comets had consequences of great significance both to Galileo and to science in general, as the favorable reception of [Il saggiatore] led him to proceed with the publication of the much more famous Dialogue, for which he was later imprisoned by the Inquisition. That fateful event was in turn intimately connected with the rift between Galileo and the Jesuits, which was widened and made permanent, if indeed it did not originate, in the public dispute about comets. Thus the controversy is closely linked with some of the most dramatic events associated with the dawn of our modern era" (Drake, The Controversy on the Comets of 1618, p. vii). OCLC lists copies in US at Brigham Young, Harvard and Yale. ABPC/RBH list only the Frank Streeter copy (Christie's New York, 16 April 2007). In the latter part of 1618, three comets appeared in the sky over Italy, eliciting lively debate among astronomers as to their nature since, according to Aristotelian orthodoxy, objects beyond the moon could not change shape or state. Unable to observe the comets due to ill health, Galileo nevertheless discussed the phenomena with numerous visitors bu
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London, Bonham Norton, and John Bill, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1620. KING JAMES BIBLE with Apocrypha and Concordance, 1620. Small 4to, approximately 215 x 155 mm, 8½ x 6¼ inches, engraved pictorial general title page and New Testament title page both with broad woodcut border representing the tents and shields of the 12 tribes, the 12 apostles, and the 4 evangelists with title in a heart shape at the centre, O.T. dated 1620, N.T. dated 1621, a few decorated head- and tailpieces and initials, printed in black letter, no pagination. Signatures: A8, A-Ggg8, I-Sss8, colophon below text on Sss8r, verso blank, signature Hhh omitted from foliation, catchwords correct, no text missing; Concordance: title page dated 1619, A-I8, K10, colophon on K10v dated 1620. Bound in full Victorian Divinty style calf, decorated with black rules and corner motifs, blind public library coat of arms to centre, bevelled edges, expertly rebacked to style with blind decoration, gilt title and gilt library number at tail, all edges red, endpapers renewed. Board edges scraped, withdrawn stamp to front pastedown, faint old library stamp to upper corner of O.T. title page, just affecting corner of image, a small blind stamp to top row of title page image, visible only on blank reverse, early ink signature on reverse of title page, repeated on 2 other blanks, top margins trimmed throughout, very occasional small pale brown stain, a little faint early scribble in 5 margins, 1 very small blank lower corner torn off (S7), very small closed tear to text at lower corner of Nnn1, no loss, 1
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Lyons: Bartholomaeus Vincentius, 1620. Second (first obtainable) edition of his 'Contructio' (Horblit 77b, 1619), with the first Continental edition of the 'Descriptio' (Horblit 77a, 1614) - "The work which in the history of British science can be placed as second only to Newton's Principia" (Evans 4)."His 'Description of the Wonderful Table of Logarithms' is unique in the history of science in that a great discovery was the result of the unaided original speculation of one individual without precursors and almost without contemporaries in his field." (PMM 116)."Logarithms provided a most important advance in the art of calculation because they reduced multiplication and division to a process of addition and subtraction, and extraction of roots to division." (Dibner 106)."Napier's invention of logarithms was immediately adopted by mathematicians both in England and on the continent, including Briggs and Ursinus, who introduced logarithms to Kepler." (Norman). Kepler "expressed his enthusiasm in a letter to Napier dated 28 July 1619, printed in the dedication of his 'Ephemerides', 1620." (DSB).The 'Descriptio' "contains fifty-seven pages of text explaining the uses of logarithms in both plane and spherical trigonometry and ninety pages of tables. The method of producing the table was not described, but Napier indicated that should this work be suitably received, he would publish another (the Constructio) on how they were calculated. ... He died before he could complete the task, but his son Robert Napier completed and published it in 1619. Napier's 1614 publication i
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One of five editions called "At the testina" (because of Machiavelli's portrait repeated in securities), printed in Geneva in the early seventeenth, around 1620. This is neither the first nor the second issue of which characteristics are known, but the last three, which differs snack.Binders modern brown cardboard speckled the bradel. back smooth. parts of title in red morocco. In a perfect state. Copy of freshness. S.n. S.l. [Geneve] 1620 16x22,5cm (4) 441pp. et (4) 140pp. et 364pp. [i.e. 362] et 185pp. (14-1 bl.) (2f. Pl.) et (4) 189pp. 5 volumes reliés

Chez Pierre Chaudiere. First edition, very rare. It is found more often, even in LIBRARY second and third editions of 1623 and 1629, and especially that of 1633. For example, the National Library of France has 13 copies of embassies, 5 1623, 2 1629, and 6 of 1633, but none of this edition 1620.Bound in full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back to ornate nerves. part of title in red morocco. Double framing net on the boards. Mors cracked head, and tail to the upper joint. With a slash missing on the lower flat. A brown spot on that same dish. Friction. A few yellowed or browned leaves and a lack of paper at a corner of a sheet on the sidelines. Good copy. Chez Pierre Chaudiere A Paris 1620 in-folio (23x35cm) (2) 724pp. (12) relié

[Leyden]: in bibliopolio Commeliniano sumptibus viduae Joannis Comelini, 1620. First edition, extremely rare, of one of the earliest modern works on atomism. "Gorlaeus is counted among the founders of modern atomism, which he proposed as an alternative to Aristotelian matter theory. Because of his notion of atomic compounds, he is also regarded as a contributor to the evolution of chemistry" (DSB). "When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published [as the present work, and as Idea physicae (1610), his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences, and theology" (Lüthy). This is a very rare book. In his review of Lüthy's book in 2012, Henri Krop wrote: "until now Gorlaeus's life and ideas have remained basically unknown because both his elaborate Exercitationes philosophicae and his Idea physicae are extremely rare and copies were unavailable in Dutch public libraries. (However since 1986 the libraries of both Leiden and Leeuwarden have acquired copies of the former.)" We have been una
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[Leyden]: in bibliopolio Commeliniano sumptibus viduae Joannis Comelini, 1620. First edition, extremely rare, of one of the earliest modern works on atomism. "Gorlaeus is counted among the founders of modern atomism, which he proposed as an alternative to Aristotelian matter theory. Because of his notion of atomic compounds, he is also regarded as a contributor to the evolution of chemistry" (DSB). "When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published [as the present work, and as Idea physicae (1610), his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences, and theology" (Lüthy). This is a very rare book. In his review of Lüthy's book in 2012, Henri Krop wrote: "until now Gorlaeus's life and ideas have remained basically unknown because both his elaborate Exercitationes philosophicae and his Idea physicae are extremely rare and copies were unavailable in Dutch public libraries. (However since 1986 the libraries of both Leiden and Leeuwarden have acquired copies of the former.)" We have been una
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[Leyden]: in bibliopolio Commeliniano sumptibus viduae Joannis Comelini, 1620. First edition, extremely rare, of one of the earliest modern works on atomism. "Gorlaeus is counted among the founders of modern atomism, which he proposed as an alternative to Aristotelian matter theory. Because of his notion of atomic compounds, he is also regarded as a contributor to the evolution of chemistry" (DSB). "When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published [as the present work, and as Idea physicae (1610), his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences, and theology" (Lüthy). This is a very rare book. In his review of Lüthy's book in 2012, Henri Krop wrote: "until now Gorlaeus's life and ideas have remained basically unknown because both his elaborate Exercitationes philosophicae and his Idea physicae are extremely rare and copies were unavailable in Dutch public libraries. (However since 1986 the libraries of both Leiden and Leeuwarden have acquired copies of the former.)" We have been una
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[Leyden]: in bibliopolio Commeliniano sumptibus viduae Joannis Comelini, 1620. First edition, extremely rare, of one of the earliest modern works on atomism. "Gorlaeus is counted among the founders of modern atomism, which he proposed as an alternative to Aristotelian matter theory. Because of his notion of atomic compounds, he is also regarded as a contributor to the evolution of chemistry" (DSB). "When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published [as the present work, and as Idea physicae (1610), his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences, and theology" (Lüthy). This is a very rare book. In his review of Lüthy's book in 2012, Henri Krop wrote: "until now Gorlaeus's life and ideas have remained basically unknown because both his elaborate Exercitationes philosophicae and his Idea physicae are extremely rare and copies were unavailable in Dutch public libraries. (However since 1986 the libraries of both Leiden and Leeuwarden have acquired copies of the former.)" We have been una
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